computer programmern.

1955 N.Y. Times 22 July 19/6 (advt.) North American representatives are making on-the-spot salary offers! Computer Programmers. Mathematicians. Computer Engineers.

1978 S. Brill Teamsters vii. 282 Teamsters organizing of clerical workers, computer programmers and other white-collar workers was especially energetic.

1988 Current Anthropol. 29 319/2 Because anthropologists need not interact with the internal workings of the machine, they do not necessarily have to be trained computer programmers.

2002 M. Sipper Machine Nature vi. 113 With the advent of the stored program, the computing profession was divided into two: the hardware engineers who design the machine itself at the nuts-and-bolts level, and the computer programmers—the software guys—who appease the computer's insatiable appetite with a plethora of programs.